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skurfskurf Member Posts: 1,071 Arc User
At present, the grind for all the different reputations is long and boring, and it is the reason I have not created another character for many months. I would love to play as a Rommie, but I literally don't have enough time to grind 3 separate reputation systems for a new character, nor the desire.

My proposal is to sell Reputation Tiers for Zen/Dilithium after that particular reputation system has been out for a while, thus limiting the grind to only the newest reputation system, and making the older reputations purchasable. This would ensure that nobody would have an unfair advantage by being able to buy all the tiers of a rep system the day it comes out, but would also give incentive to players to make new characters since you will be able to compete on a somewhat even footing with people that have long ago completed a certain rep system.

As it stands now, I would make Tiers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of both Romulan and Omega Reputation purchasable. I would not have Nukara purchasable at the moment, but after a reputation system has been out for 3 or 4 months, I would suggest its tiers become purchasable.

Maybe something like 100 zen for T1, 200 zen for T2, 300 zen For T3, 500 zen for T4 and 800 zen for T5. Then you could give a bulk-rate discount of, say, 1,500 zen (and/or some similar amount of dilithium) for the purchase of all tiers of a reputation system.

Not only would Cryptic make money off of these Reputation purchases, but they would make money in other areas as well, such as new character slots, ships for the new characters, etc. The characters that I currently have on my account I've had for quite some time and have them all in max-level gear/ships/reputation. There's just not a lot left for me to buy for these old toons, which means I haven't been spending much money on the game lately. However, the more new characters that are created in the game, the more money they would make because people like me would not only want the rep system without the tedious grind, but of course we'd also want new ships and gear for our new toon.

In addition, I do not see any drawback to this from the player perspective as all it will do is level the playing field for players that want to make a new toon and still be competitive against other people's older characters. If people still want to grind for the reputation there is nothing stopping them, and if they want a new reputation, such as Nukara at present, then they'd still have to grind for that one like everyone else.

This is a Free-To-Play-But-Pay-Or-Grind-For-Everything-Else game after all, so why not include these reputation tiers in that model? To me, it seems like a win-win scenario for both the players and Cryptic/PWE.
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  • jetwtfjetwtf Member Posts: 1,207
    edited June 2013
    Why not make the rep account wide with unlocks on alts instead? Even charging 500 zen to match 1 alt to the one with maxed rep would be far better.
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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Technically, reputation (really Marks for Reputation) can actually be purchased. BUT only during the Winter and Summer Events.


    For instance with the Summer Event:

    1. Use Zen to buy Lockboxes to get Lobi
    2. Use Lobi to buy Favors
    3. Use Favors to buy Bird Eggs (1 per day)
    4. Raise Birds to Elder
    5. Turn in Elder Birds for Reputation Marks
  • crusader2007crusader2007 Member Posts: 1,883 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    jetwtf wrote: »
    Why not make the rep account wide with unlocks on alts instead? Even charging 500 zen to match 1 alt to the one with maxed rep would be far better.

    This makes so much more sense. If they did with the Reman alternate addition (get one if you reach T5 Romulan in any character) couldn't they just add the same with all reps and make it account wide?:)
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  • skurfskurf Member Posts: 1,071 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    jetwtf wrote: »
    Why not make the rep account wide with unlocks on alts instead? Even charging 500 zen to match 1 alt to the one with maxed rep would be far better.

    I'd be all for that, but 500 zen seems a bit low to transfer all of your rep to a new toon. I'd be willing to pay much more than that per toon.
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